Traffic stop leads to 496 grams of cocaine, arrests

Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 03:49 PM.

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Deputies confiscated 496 grams of cocaine and charged two men after a traffic stop Tuesday night.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, two men and a woman were traveling north on N.C. 16 business near Sugarwood Lane in Denver just after 9 a.m. when they were stopped for a possible traffic violation.

The people in the car acted suspicious when questioned, according to a press release.

Deputies reportedly searched the vehicle and found nearly half a kilo of cocaine under the passenger’s seat of the car. The drugs were valued between $18,000 and $100,000 depending on how the drugs are packaged and sold, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The driver of the car, Mairo Reco Danner, 26, of 2783 Dan Brown Road, Claremont, was charged with four felonies: trafficking cocaine by transport, trafficking cocaine by possession, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, and conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Damarius Corday Miller, 26, of 4895 Maple Street, Catawba, was a passenger in the car and was charged with three felonies: trafficking cocaine by transport, trafficking cocaine by possession, and conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Deputies confiscated 496 grams of cocaine and charged two men after a traffic stop Tuesday night.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, two men and a woman were traveling north on N.C. 16 business near Sugarwood Lane in Denver just after 9 a.m. when they were stopped for a possible traffic violation.

The people in the car acted suspicious when questioned, according to a press release.

Deputies reportedly searched the vehicle and found nearly half a kilo of cocaine under the passenger’s seat of the car. The drugs were valued between $18,000 and $100,000 depending on how the drugs are packaged and sold, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The driver of the car, Mairo Reco Danner, 26, of 2783 Dan Brown Road, Claremont, was charged with four felonies: trafficking cocaine by transport, trafficking cocaine by possession, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, and conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Damarius Corday Miller, 26, of 4895 Maple Street, Catawba, was a passenger in the car and was charged with three felonies: trafficking cocaine by transport, trafficking cocaine by possession, and conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

A woman in the car was turned over to a law enforcement agency in an adjacent county.

Miller and Danner were each placed in jail under a $300,000 secured bond each.